Update 257 — Primary Recap: TX, IL Key Candidates, Races, and Results Last week’s primary elections in Texas and yesterday’s in Illinois mark a turning point in the year. Washington saw a major winter snowstorm on the first official day of spring. And there have been some surprises in the hinterland as primary season 2018 …
Update 203 — Median Income Hits New Record But… Who Has Seen the Wage Gains? The news out of the Census Bureau yesterday that median household income has reached record heights — $59K — following an average growth rate of more than four percent over 2015 and ’16 — was an unambiguously good and a …
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Update 194 — Jobs and Job Training: Repeal & Defund vs. Resist & Defend Six months into the Trump administration — amid travel ban court fights, investigations, tweeted threats against investigations, staff shake ups, Russian collusion allegations, misspelled tweets, fake news, baked beans, and spam — the American worker, retired worker, and worker-in-training are still forgotten. Democrats …
Update 190: Full Employment Shortages June Jobs Report & the Labor Market The BLS jobs report for the month of June, released last Friday, showed a resumption of net jobs gained — 222,000, up from 138,000 in May. Unemployment came in at 4.4 percent, not far from what economists regard as maximum, or “full,” employment. But …
As he begins his victory tour tonight in Ohio, President-elect Trump appears on the cusp of a deal with a large Indiana manufacturing firm that would keep 500-1000 furnace-making jobs in the state. What’s the deal? Is it a model for job creation and a tool for the four percent GDP growth that Trump is aiming …
